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Connecticut activists call protest over ICE raids with ‘day without immigrants’
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Connecticut activists call protest over ICE raids with ‘day without immigrants’

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Activists in Danbury, Connecticut, called for a “day without immigrants” after about 70 residents were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement within a week.
  • Organizers urged businesses to close and residents to skip work, school and shopping on Sept. 2, with a protest planned outside the public library.
  • Local officials and Democratic senators said fear of arrests has kept immigrant residents from work, stores and school bus stops, while the Trump administration said ICE is targeting people with final deportation orders.

A week of immigration arrests in Danbury, Connecticut, has prompted activists to call for a citywide protest and a “day without immigrants” on Sept. 2. Organizers say about 70 residents were detained in the city during the previous week.

We ask you to stand in solidarity. Do not go to work on September 2. Do not go to school, do not go shopping.

— Danbury United For ImmigrantsThe activist group’s call for participation in the protest and economic action.

Danbury United For Immigrants urged businesses to close and residents not to go to work, school or shopping. A demonstration is planned for the afternoon outside the local public library, with organizers saying the action will show the strength of immigrant communities and their allies.

The group said arrests involved members of 65 families and took place near a daycare center, in a supermarket parking lot, while people drove to work, outside homes and at school bus stops. The arrests came as Tuesday marked the first day of school for many children.

The worst of the worst

— Richard BlumenthalBlumenthal used the phrase to criticize the administration’s stated focus on immigrants with serious criminal records.

Mayor Roberto Alves and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal held a news conference after speaking with residents and visiting businesses on the city’s main street. They described fear among immigrant residents about going to work and sending children to school. NBC reported that Alves said about 700 students were not attending classes because their parents feared arrests at bus stops.

There were 100 or more, perhaps many more, detained, and only a fraction, perhaps six or seven, had a criminal record.

— Richard BlumenthalThe senator disputed the administration’s description of the people targeted in Danbury.

Blumenthal said the Trump administration was not keeping its promise to focus on “the worst of the worst,” referring to immigrants with serious criminal records. He said at least 100 people, and possibly many more, had been detained, while only six or seven appeared to have criminal histories. Border czar Tom Homan said ICE was seeking people with final deportation orders, whom he described as criminals, and said the agency did not intend to terrorize children. He declined to discuss Connecticut because the operation was ongoing.

ICE is looking for illegal aliens with final deportation orders because they are criminals.

— Tom HomanHoman described the group ICE was seeking while declining to discuss the ongoing Connecticut operation.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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